Monthly Archives: March 2009
Quote of the day
” How much is a trillion dollars? If you would have spend a million dollars every day since the birth of Jesus, you still would have hundreds of millions left today.”
Crowd rating 2.0
Wired News dives into the issue of the rating agencies that gave AAA-ratings to toxic products. Their solution is the right one for the hyperconnected world: – enforce a standard for reporting (XML-based dialect) that a computer can access, read … Continue reading
Wireless and wired
At the F2C conference of David Isenberg the classical debate of wireless versus wired has been restarted. In my opinion they are symbiotic. Nico Baken has written a wonderful piece on this, its over here. 6_4 Four Tiered Hierarchy.pdf {Update} … Continue reading
Underserved
The Broadband Stimulus package in the USA gets everybody excited and debating how to spend the sizable but relatively limited amount of money. One of the big debates is to either allocate it all to bring some form of broadband … Continue reading
Gone with the wind
A wind-only powered speedrecord, over 200 kph (Gas2.org).
Testing, testing
Mitsubishi cleverly uses Youtube to create a viral marketing campaign for it MIEV electric car. Many Youtube movies with reactions of drivers. One of them is below here, see the link for more. (link to Youtube movies)
Locusts
Why selfregulation (update: or a regulator that relies on selfregulation) does not work in the face of greed: a commenter of The Economist sums it up quite succint. Typical scenario for the last 18 years: January – Private Equity Investor … Continue reading
Total cost of ownership
A new Jaguar? No, but the new Tesla S could have been designed over there. Gas2.org has an interesting approach: would this car be affordable/cheaper if you consider the total cost of ownership compared with a standard USD 35.000 gas-powered … Continue reading
Cold turkey
Ars reviews Steve Knopper’s new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Knopper’s approach of zooming in on the personalities of the key players probably adds a refreshing view on the events as they … Continue reading
Initiative
Amsterdam has great ambitions to introduce eletric cars in the city. In 2040 all transport by cars should be electrified. We just hope this will fare better than the ill-fated experiment with electric boats, 10 years ago.